1970s

Volume 12.1 (October 1979)

Articles

  • John Gatta, Jr., “Edward Taylor and Thomas Hooker: Two Physicians of The Poore Doubting Soul”
  • Joseph A. Longo, “Under the Volcano: Geoffrey Firmin’s Tragic Epiphany”
  • James E. Robinson, “King Lear and the Space Between”
  • Herbert Mason, “Excerpt from The Death of al-Hallaj” (Introduction by David Burrell, CSC)

Book Reviews

  • John J. McDonald on Giles Gunn, The Interpretation of Otherness: Literature, Religion, and the American Imagination
  • Elizabeth Sewell on William Blake, Milton and The Book of Urizen
  • J. Hillis Miller on Felicia Bonaparte, The Triptych and the Cross: The Central Myth of George Eliot’s Poetic Imagination

Volume 11.2 (April 1979)

Articles

  • David G. Roskies, “The Pogrom Poem and the Literature of Destruction”
  • Henryk Grynberg, “The Holocaust in Polish Literature”
  • Judith Baskin, “The Rabbinic Transformation of Rahab the Harlot”

Book Reviews

  • Hana Wirth-Nesher​​​​​​​ on Irving Howe and Ruth Wisse, eds., The Best of Sholom Aleichem
  • Joyce Field on Sol Gittleman, From Shtetl to Suburbia: The Family in Jewish Literary Imagination
  • Janice Friedman on Leslie Epstein, King of the Jews
  • Elliot D. Rosenstock​​​​​​​ on Alvin H. Rosenfeld and Irving Greenberg, eds., Confronting the Holocaust: The Impact of Elie Wiesel
  • Bonnie Lyons on Bernard Malamud, Dubin’s Lives

Volume 11.1 (October 1978)

Articles

  • Virginia F. Randall, “The Mandala as Structure in Thomas Merton’s The Geography of Lograire
  • Guy Rotella, “Evil, Goodness, and Grace in Warren’s Audobon: A Vision
  • Byron L. Sherwin, “Jewish Messianism and Elie Weisel”
  • Joseph Anthony Mazzeo, “Fallen Man: Forbidden Knowledge, Forgotten Knowledge”

Book Reviews

  • Robert McAfee Brown​​​​​​​ on Elie Weisel, Four Hasidic Masters and Their Struggle Against Melancholy
  • Elena Malits, CSC on Thomas Merton, Collected Poems
  • Thomas R. Whitaker on David Jones, The Dying Gaul and Other Writings